Up & running with Norton Utilities on the Macintosh

164 Pages·1991·26.9 MB·English

by  Dyson, Peter John

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Acquisitions Editor: Dianne King
Series Editor: Joanne Cuthbertson
Editor. Kathleen Lattinville
Technical Editor: Celia P. Stevenson
Word Processors: Lisa Mitchell, Scott Campbell, Ann Dunn, Susan Trybull
Book Designer: Ingrid Owen, Helen Bruno
Icon Designer: Helen Bruno
Screen Graphics: Cuong Lc
Desktop Production Artist: Lisa Jaffe
Proofreader: Barbara Dahl
Indexer: Ted Laux
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Library of Congress Card Number: 91-65164
ISBN: 0-89588-823-8
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Acknowledgments
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Once again I have enjoyed my part in writing this book, but as al
ways, many people have worked on the project, providing techni
cal assistance, advice, and many other services. This is my chance
to thank them.
At SYBEX, thanks again to Kathleen Lattinville for another fine
editing job, to Celia P. Stevenson for her technical edit, and to
Dianne King, Acquisitions Manager, for her encouragement.
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Susan Trybull, word processing; Cuong Le, screen graphics; Lisa
Jaffe, desktop production; Barbara Dahl, proofreading; and
Ted Laux, indexing. Without them this book would never have
happened.
At Symantec/Peter Norton Group, thanks to Frank Cohen, Product
Manager for the Norton Utilities for the Macintosh, for advice and
copies of the software; and to Steve Forgach for helpful support
and timely technical information.
Thanks once again to Nancy, who deftly organized normal life, al
lowing it to continue with only a few minor interruptions. Thanks
to Steve Dahm for answering many of my Macintosh questions,
and thanks to Luther, who discovered new and undocumented key
combinations in my word processor by jumping up onto the
keyboard.
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Preface
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The Norton Utilities for the Macintosh occupy a unique position
in the Macintosh world. They add to the Macintosh operating sys
tem in several important ways: they provide the tools for diagnos
ing and repairing disks and restoring erased files, they provide
programs that let you optimize your Macintosh's resources effi
ciently, and they extend the capabilities of the desktop with desk
accessories and control panel devices that speed up and simplify
your normal operations.
This book describes the Norton Utilities version 1.0 for the
Macintosh and is organized into 20 Steps. Each Step describes a
specific utility, but you don't have to read the Steps in sequence.
Because each of the Steps is self-contained, you can just read
about the utilities you are most interested in.
REQUIREMENTS FOR
RUNNING THE UTILITIES
The Norton Utilities will run on several versions of the Macintosh
operating system. You must have System 4.2, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4,
or 6.0.7 in order to use the utilities.
As for hardware, the Norton Utilities will run on the Mac Plus; the
Macintosh Portable; the SE and SE 30; and the Macintosh II, IIx,
Ilcx, and Ilci. They also run on the new Macs: the Classic, LC, and
Ilsi. A hard disk is recommended, although not required, and you
must have at least one megabyte of memory.